Dear Thierry, Thanks for that. It is encouraging. I had found reference to both these applications but have not for the moment had the time to investigate further. Right now, the Scribus problem has my attention but I suspect for not much longer, unfortunately!
All the best Rodney On 23 Aug 2009, at 15:01, Thierry S. Lytle wrote: > GIMP and Inkscape are both available for Mac. From my 20+ years > experience with Photoshop / Illustrator / CorelDraw et al, GIMP and > Inkscape should replace your Phsp and Illustrator quite nicely. > > TSL > > > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 12:01 +0100, Professor Rodney Coates wrote: > >> Hi Owen, >> >> At the moment I use RagTime (a German Page layout program) which is >> somewhat idosyncratic at times, quite complex and does not have quite >> such an appealing Graphics User Interface as Scribus. >> >> I use Pages '09 (Apples iWork suite) for general word processing. I >> use Illustrator and Photoshop extensively, for the production of >> scientific graphics. All these applications allow me to use (and have >> so done for decades, in previous incarnations) Symbol font and Zapf >> Dingbats. I cannot comprehend why Scribus allows me to have both >> these >> fonts on its font list, but that they just do not work at all. I >> could >> sort of understand if Scribus did not use them so did not show them. >> >> Also, with respect to the fonts list, it is really nice to have DTP >> and allied software present you with a list of "just those fonts" you >> normally use. Then (as with Illustrator, for example) you don't have >> to scroll through the entire several hundred (or whatever it is) to >> reach the one you want, when you make font changes in a document. >> Scribus allows this but, annoyingly - at least as far as I can see - >> there is no way you can "deselect all" then select the half-dozen you >> would ever work with. So I spent quite a while happily setting up my >> preferences before discovering that two fonts of the half-dozen, for >> the first time ever, just would not work. >> >> Incidentally, I am of the view that there has hardly been a >> significant true innovation in all the "upgrades" of Illustrator and >> Photoshop that I have owned and paid for over at least two decades. >> If >> I could find an OpenSource equivalent to these applications I would >> change today. It is a project (finding them) that I am currently >> engaged on. This is why I am so saddened with the Scribus situation. >> It looks and feels really great but it just don't cut the mustard. >> >> Finally: No, I do not have LaTex. I have known about it for some >> fifteen years. My French engineering friends swore by it, but it >> always seemed too complex for my purposes. Instead, I used MathType >> which either had to be bought or was bundled into AppleScript. I >> shall >> go and see what I can find in the way of LaTex software now. >> >> Many thanks >> >> Rodney >> >> >> >> >> On 23 Aug 2009, at 11:34, Owen wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> The Symbol font will not display; Zapf Dingbats will not display; >>>> Render Frame will not work (). Latex/Tex is not working/ >>>> available .... >>>> >>>> I am a technical author. I need to set Greek symbols within lines >>>> of >>>> ordinary text. I need to set mathematical formulae. >>> >>> >>> >>> If latex/TeX is not available, why? >>> >>> Do you have latex etc installed >>> >>> can you produce documents in Latex? >>> >>> If you have latex, I suggest you use that for the time being. it >>> also >>> has the advantage of making footnotes and reference list. >>> >>> Do your fonts display in Open office or whatever document editor you >>> are using? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> Owen >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribus mailing list >>> scribus at lists.scribus.info >>> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> Professor Rodney Coates, Ph.D., FIEEE >> Seiche Ltd. >> Swallow Court >> Trefor >> Holyhead >> Anglesey >> LL65 4TA >> +44 (0)1407 720 474 >> Mobile: 0787645020 >> >> rcoates at seiche.com >> www.seiche.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090823/24734e5f/attachment.htm > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus Professor Rodney Coates, Ph.D., FIEEE Seiche Ltd. Swallow Court Trefor Holyhead Anglesey LL65 4TA +44 (0)1407 720 474 Mobile: 0787645020 rcoates at seiche.com www.seiche.com
